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President Dilma Rousseff has promoted two women to key posts... after a scandal forced out her closest aide and top political adviser Antonio Palocci.
She named Ideli Salvatti to head congressional relations...after earlier naming Senator Gleisi Hoffmann to be cabinet chief.
"Dilma is forming a female soccer team, with her on top of a winning and competent group of players,” said her party's deputy leader Jilmar Tatto. “She’s Pele with a skirt."
An O GLOBO newspaper columnist called the new appointees “amazons”.
Since taking office in January, Rousseff has named 10 women to 38 cabinet-level posts.
